Hong Kong designates ITE Hong Kong and MICE Travel Expo 2025 as mega event

The Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (SAR) authorities has designated the ITE Hong Kong and MICE Travel Expo 2025 as one of many territory’s mega occasions for the primary half of 2025.

Mega occasions are outlined as gatherings that might have important affect on a lot of enterprise sectors.

For essentially the most half, these are occasions that spur progress within the fields of tourism, hospitality, and retail, bringing substantial financial acquire to Hong Kong.

Over the years, such occasions have drawn in a major variety of vacationers, contributing considerably to the territory’s gross home product (GDP.)

Back on monitor

Hosting a dwell version of the ITE was a problematic enterprise on the peak of the pandemic and even the primary held in 2021 was a shaky affair.

Since then, organisers have held the dwell event yearly, opening its doorways to each home and worldwide exhibitors.

The 2023 run of the ITE was the primary time that regional patrons and commerce professionals returned to the event, whereas the one held this yr got here near returning to the variety of members and halls seen previous to the pandemic.

For 2024, the variety of commerce and public guests had been already at 85 p.c of pre-pandemic ranges.